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Title: Women's Economic Gains from Employment, Marriage and Cohabitation
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Nandi, Alita |
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Women's Economic Gains from Employment, Marriage and Cohabitation Presented: Budapest, Hungary, 62nd European Meeting of the Econometric Society: Joint With the 22nd Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, August 2007 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Econometric Society Keyword(s): Cohabitation; Education; Education, Secondary; Household Income; Marriage; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Racial Differences; Welfare; Women Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In "Women's Economic Gains from Employment, Marriage and Cohabitation" I ask which of the mechanisms--employment, marriage or cohabitation--leads to greater economic gains, especially for women predisposed towards poverty. Using data from the NLSY79, I estimate a fixed-effects model of household income (adjusted for household composition) to assess the within-person gains associated with changes in employment and marital status; I allow the effects of employment on household income to differ for single, cohabiting, and married women. First I predict that the log household income of single, nonemployed, "poor" (those who ever received welfare) women increases by 0.80, if they enter a cohabiting union, 1.04 if they marry, 0.76 if they work part-time (1000 hours/year), and 1.16 if they work full-time (2000 hours/year). Next I find that the expected gains from cohabitation, marriage and employment for nonpoor women are greater than those for their poor counterparts. For any of the transitions, the poor-nonpoor difference in predicted gains declines as the initial employment levels increase. |
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Nandi, Alita. "Women's Economic Gains from Employment, Marriage and Cohabitation." Presented: Budapest, Hungary, 62nd European Meeting of the Econometric Society: Joint With the 22nd Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, August 2007. |